Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is a PC Star Trek simulation game that simulates the life of a typical Starfleet cadet. The object in the game is for the player to learn the basics of flying a starship so that…
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is a simulator developed by Interplay, released 12 September 1997 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 17 hrs to finish.
What Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is a simulator game developed by Interplay and released in 1997. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The player takes the role of human Cadet David Forester, leader of a cadet group at Starfleet's San Francisco–based Command College. The player has to pass all the simulated missions, optionally including the infamous Kobayashi Maru scenario. The scenarios, in addition to simple combat situations, include a recreation of Kirk's near-disastrous starship confrontation with Khan Noonien Singh which Kirk ruefully admits is used to teach cadets to avoid his serious mistake that nearly doomed his ship. In addition, between simulator scenarios, Forester must keep his crew in check and prevent personality clashes from lowering team performance by choosing the right dialogue options during…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Star Trek series
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is the 30th of 90 entries we hold in the Star Trek series. It arrived 8 months after Star Trek: Borg. The next entry was Star Trek: Generations in 1997.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 17 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 40 hrs, roughly 2.4 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy launched on 12 September 1997, within three weeks of Final Fantasy VII, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, GoldenEye 007 and Resident Evil: Director's Cut.
Released around the same time: Final Fantasy VII, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, GoldenEye 007, Resident Evil: Director's Cut.
Official trailer
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